Top 252 Westerns Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was to play gangsters and cowboys in movies.
Westerns give people a chance to see wide-open spaces and life before technology took over.
Years ago on TV, I played people like Doc Holliday and Jesse James on Westerns.
I think Westerns are always so great for clearing out the clutter and the ambiguities, and getting right to the broad strokes of that kind of situation.
The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
Those old westerns are the movies I grew up with on Saturday afternoons at the theater.
The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.
Why westerns get segregated into a genre in Hollywood, I don't know... It's just good entertainment.
It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books and movies we wouldn't originally have thought of as westerns.
I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.
Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
I loved spaghetti westerns but besides these pure entertainment movies, there was also something different.
When I was growing up in the '60s I would have thought that westerns would last forever.
I love westerns, I'd love to make more of them.
It could have been extremely boring to write musical scores for only westerns of horror films. It was really exciting for me to work in all these various genres.
In most Westerns, you know, people are shooting off guns all the time until you don't even notice it anymore.
In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
Star Trek' ushered in the end of the Westerns. Then the canvas switched to the sci-fi canvas.
I got hooked on TV westerns back in the early sixties when I was about five, mostly because my brother was addicted to them and wouldn't let me watch anything else.
There are a lot of westerns that deal with people standing up for their principles, and that is the predominant theme that has been in my films.
I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else.
It is a very classic Western [Valley of Violence], and if you like Westerns, you'll like this movie, but there's a tone to it that's all its own that I think is unique and memorable.
The Westerns I like aren't really comedies. I'm drawn to the scope of them and the land as a central character.
The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it.
Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.
I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.
I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else
I'm really glad Westerns have had a revival. Hopefully our little resurgence will last a while.
I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.
I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.
As a child, I was subjected to a lot of spaghetti Westerns and hated them. I wanted the Indians to win - or just not be so sad!
The marriage between the fantasy and the Westerns is that thing of, if people think you're the best gunslinger around, they're going to come looking for you.
I love westerns. It's guys being guys. There's no room for frilly stuff.
My parents were huge fans of westerns, European cinema, and horror in particular. They wouldn't just show me kids' films.
Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.
When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff like that. That's where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.
What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.
But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story.
All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.
But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story
When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers films and westerns and stuff like that. Thats where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.
If I could just make Westerns for the rest of my life, that's all I would do. It's my favorite movie to make. There's something about being a cowboy.
There's something great about terrible westerns. They look like gay dancers and bad, overwrought dialogue and overacting, black and white sped up horses.
People are always asking me why they don't make Westerns like they used to.
Westerns are closer to art than anything else in the motion picture business.
I was a fan of westerns growing up. Every boy wanted to ride a horse and be a cowboy.
You know, Alundra Blayze, with her looks could star in TV westerns...if she had two more legs.
Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.
From the age of four or five. I went to see a lot of Westerns then. But it was silent movies and I loved everything that happened then.
Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned.
They are the same today as they were years ago.
In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.
The first Westerns I saw as a child were those little 8-mm. home movies put out by Castle Films.
I think that most of the best movies made in America in the 20th century were crime dramas, screwball comedies and westerns.
I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.
I think women have always been considered objects, especially in the genre of westerns.
Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.
We recognize ourselves in Westerns, ... I believe the Western can orchestrate moments around reality. The reality can be as entertaining to us as the lie.
Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.
When I was putting the 'Best of Hollywood' book together, I sat down and added up just the list of Westerns I've done, and it came to well over 200.
